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Most people know that women tend to live longer than men. This pattern has been observed since accurate birth records began to be kept some 300 years ago. But it is only over the past decade or so that researchers have documented that female/male lifespan divergence occurs on a grand scale across species.
There are roughly 5.5 million wheelchair users in the United States. Most live predominantly sedentary lifestyles, which leads to substantially higher cardiometabolic risk factors when compared to the general population. Researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham are hoping to minimize some of these cardiometabolic risk factors through a new study.
The prevalence of Type 2 diabetes in youth is increasing in the United States, primarily among minorities, with Black and Hispanic youth showing the greatest increase. Neither the reason for the increase nor the mechanism underlying the disproportionate risk in minority youth is known.
The American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine’s (ACRM) Spinal Cord Interdisciplinary Special Interest Group selected Yuying Chen, M.D., Ph.D. to receive the Margaret Nosek Award.
Three UAB studies look at obesity in-utero and how it affects offspring as part of four-center study
A new study, published in the Journal of the American Heart Association, suggests that what happens in the womb could determine whether the offspring will develop obesity or other metabolic diseases later in life.
"Steps are an easy way to measure physical activity, and more daily steps were associated with a lower risk of having a cardiovascular disease-related event in older adults,” said Erin E. Dooley, Ph.D., an assistant professor of epidemiology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Public Health and lead researcher of the study.
The Univeristy of Alabama at Birmingham’s Aaron Fobian, Ph.D., has been selected to receive the 2023 Donald K. Routh Early Career Award from the American Psychological Association’s Society of Pediatric Psychology.
Obese fruit flies are the experimental subjects in a Nature Communications study of the causes of muscle function decline due to obesity. In humans, skeletal muscle plays a crucial role in metabolism, and muscle dysfunction due to human obesity can lead to insulin resistance and reduced energy levels.
The Bachelor of Science in biobehavioral nutrition and wellness launched in fall 2021. It offers students the chance to “dive deep into the relationship between human health, mindfulness, nutrition, metabolism and food as medicine,” according to its website. Although many universities offer undergraduate nutrition degrees, UAB’s new major is unique in emphasizing the “interaction between the science of nutrition with physical, mental and emotional well-being,” said Douglas Moellering, Ph.D., associate professor and director of Undergraduate Programs in the Department of Nutrition Sciences. “There is a lot of data showing a link between cognitive ability, mood and the food choices we make.”